The whole place seemed to have been stricken with a kind of creeping paralysis - out of beat with the rest of the world, crumbling apart in slow motion.
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I can still see myself in the line. Marie Prevost. Mabel Normand. Mabel was always stepping on my feet.
The last week in December, the rains came. A great big package of rain. Oversized. Like everything else in California.
Betty Schaefer: Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Gillis, but I just didn't think it was any good. I found it flat and trite.Joe Gillis: Exactly what kind of material do you recommend? James Joyce? Dostoyevsky?Betty Schaefer: I just think that pictures should say a little something.Joe Gillis: Oh, one of the message kids. Just a story won't do. You'd have turned down Gone With the Wind.Sheldrake: No, that was me. I said, "Who wants to see a Civil War picture?"